Calgary: Card Magic Essentials with Brent Smith

From The Vanishing Rabbit:

When:  3 Saturday Nights - April 2, April 9th, April 16th
Time: 7-9pm
Where: The Vanishing Rabbit Magic Shop

Join Award Winning Magician BRENT SMITH for 3 Nights of Essential Card Magic Sleights. Learning card magic is like building a house. Everything starts with a strong foundation of basic building blocks. These won't we your Grampa's Card Tricks.

This 3 night course will start you at the beginning of card magic and take you to a working professional level.

Learn the core skills (the ones that get used over and over again in thousands of tricks) from a well trained Award winning Magician

For more information, contact The Vanishing Rabbit.

[h/t: Gwyn Auger]

Toronto: Ghost Stories at the Panasonic Theatre.

From the Ghost Stories website:

After breaking all box-office records on its opening at Liverpool Playhouse and the Lyric Hammersmith, Ghost Stories burst onto the West End in June 2010 & has been playing to packed houses ever since. Now it makes its North American premiere - with an all-Canadian cast - at the Panasonic Theatre.

Be prepared for 80 minutes of thrills, laughs and scares that you will never forget!
The totally unique West End show comes from the truly talented and dark minds of The League of Gentlemen's master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown's television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance.

Visit the Ghost Stories website if you're brave enough to want more information.

[h/t: @SorcerersSafari]

Edmonton: Sheldon Casavant speaking at LogiCON

From the LogiCON website:

LogiCON is a daylong event bringing members of the scientific and skeptic communities together with the general public to celebrate logic, critical thinking and the scientific method. LogiCON is for everyone: there will be talks from a variety of speakers for both the longtime science enthusiast and the curious beginner alike.

Sheldon Casavant will be speaking about magic and deception.

Visit the LogiCON website for more information.

[h/t: @Sheldon Casavant]

Toronto: Ben Train is special guest at Browser's Den magic club

From The Browser's Den:

This Saturday, April 2 at 'Browser's Den' we have our monthly Magic Club Meeting. The club meets at 2:00pm until about 4:00pm.  

We are very plesed that our SPECIAL GUEST at the club will be BEN TRAIN. All who are interested in improving their magic may attend for FREE.

If this interests you, please confirm details directly with the Browser's Den of Magic.

Rounding the Western rings in April

Confirm details about dates and locations by visiting each club's website.

City	Club	Event(s)
Calgary, AB	Ring 66 (Calgary Magic Circle, Les Brocklesby Ring)	- Works In Progress - mini-workshop on balloon twisting - Jr. Magic Club - Garden Variety Show
Edmonton, AB	Edmonton Magic Club	- Abra-kid-abra
Winnipeg, MB	The Magic Club of Winnipeg	- Family Day of Magic
Vancouver, BC	Ring 92 (Vancouver Magic Circle)	- Chad Long lecture - Executive Meeting - Gimmicked Card Night - Charles Howard Trophy competition
Victoria, BC	Ring 183 (Victoria Magic Circle)	- Annual General Meeting

Please leave a comment or e-mail me about corrections or omissions.

Rounding the Ontario rings in April

Confirm details about dates and locations by visiting each club's website.

Hamilton, ON	Ring 49 (The Doug Henning Magic Wand Club)	- Competition Night
London, ON	London Magician's Guild	- TBD
Kitchener, ON	Ring 235 (The Caesar Hat & Wand Magic Circle)	- Annual 4F lecturer, TBD
Ottawa, ON	Ring 151 (Ottawa Society of Magicians)	- Pot-luck Banquet Party - Executive Nominations
Toronto, ON	Ring 17 (Sid Lorraine Hat and Rabbit Club)	- shop visit: The Browser's Den
Woodstock, ON	CAM 1 (Friendly City Mystics)	- 4F lecturer, TBD

Please leave a comment or e-mail me about corrections or omissions.

Toronto: Luminato Announces 2011 Magic Programs

From the Luminato website:

Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, today announced the Festival’s 2011 Magic programs. The fifth anniversary edition of Luminato introduces two original magic shows and features world premieres, vaudeville nostalgia, and the interactive, improvisational style of modern magic.

 
About the shows:

Natural Magick: A 90-minute show written by David Ben and Patrick Watson, with music by John Lang.  Ben recreates magic from the repertoire of the world’s master magicians, revisiting feats of wonder in the context of “scenes” realized through the prism of projected imagery and John Lang’s playful score.

Vodavil:  Featuring some of the world’s most gifted variety artists, including comedian-magician Mike Caveney, mime and magician Tina Lenert, physical illusionist Ardan James, magicians and parodists The Great Tomsoni and Company, and Gaetan Bloom, a master of the absurd.

Eric Mead - Toast of the Town: Showcasing Eric and the art of improv 'bar magic.'

From the Sharing Wonder website:

Tickets will go on sale in mid-April. We will be giving an advance purchase option to subscribers, so make sure that you join the Magicana eList to receive word.

Visit the Magicana website for more information.